The BAFTA nominations were announced yesterday and unlike most other Awards Season voters, the BAFTA voters gave us some real surprises. Lancaster also returned to Broadway this season with the multiple Tony award winning musical production of The Bridges of Madison County, after previously producing the Pulitzer Prize winning, 'night, Mother, both with (long time colleague) Marsha Norman. Recent features include the award winning DRIVE starring Gosling and directed by Nicolas Refn, ONLY GOD FORGIVES starring Gosling and Kristin Scott Thomas; and EVIDENCE starring Stephen Moyer, Radha Mitchell, Torrey DeVitto and Caitlin Stasey. It is nearly at $1 million and has room to grow further. What is the Spanish language plot outline for Whiplash (2013)? In fact, it was a comedy, The Grand Budapest Hotel, that earned the most nominations at 11. With a dedication to making commercial films with artistic vision, Litvak has diversified the company's slate by developing films in a wide variety of genres that include dramas, thrillers, sci-fi and independent festival favorites. His latest film, Labor Day, which he adapted from the novel by Joyce Maynard and stars Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin, will be released on December 27 by Paramount. Chazelle finished writing the script in 2013, drawing upon his experiences in a "very competitive" jazz band in high school. Lancaster has been involved in the development, finance, production and distribution of over 35 motion pictures and several major stage plays and television series since his start in the entertainment business in the early 1980s. The Golden Globes nominations were announced this morning, at three in the morning, because the people at Golden Globes are under the delusion that news announced at 3:00 a.m. is somehow more important if it is announced before anyone is awake. The screenplay appeared on the 2012 Black List, and the short won the Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Fiction at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Litvak recently wrapped production on HOW TO CATCH A MONSTER, his third production with Academy Award-nominated actor Ryan Gosling. As a result he was recruited to attend a six-week performing arts class in New York City at the New York School for Film and TV. By way of comparison, Gone Girl opened with $37.5 million three weeks ago. After a successful performance of "Whiplash," Fletcher promotes Andrew to the core drummer. In December 2015, the score received a Grammy nomination, and the film was nominated for the NME Award for Best Film. Blum's model began with the original Paranormal Activity, which was made for $15,000, released by Paramount Pictures, and grossed close to $200 million worldwide, making it the most profitable film in the history of Hollywood. Its opening week Blu-ray share was 67%, which is stunning. For the third weekend in a row, Birdman led the per theater chart. In 2014, he wrote and directed his second feature film Whiplash, based on his award-winning short film Whiplash (2013). Like the Best Supporting Actress category, Best Supporting Actor isn't even close and one of the five nominees is absolutely running away with things. At BOLD, Lancaster oversaw the cult sensation DRIVE, starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (Best Director award at Cannes), which was released by FILMDISTRICT and grossed over $80 million worldwide. Blumhouse's franchises include James Wan's Insidious which had a budget of $1.5m and grossed close to $100m worldwide and Sinister, directed and co-written by Scott Derrickson and starring Ethan Hawke for Lionsgate/Summit which has grossed over $87 million worldwide on a $3 million budget. At his father's request, Andrew meets a lawyer representing the parents of Sean Casey, a former student of Fletcher's. He then entered the independent film world as an Assistant Editor on such films as Ang Lee's Civil War drama RIDE WITH THE DEVIL and Rob Schmidt's horror film WRONG TURN, before becoming the Additional Editor on James Gray's WE OWN THE NIGHT and TWO LOVERS. Because sales figures are estimated based on sampling, they will be more accurate for higher-selling titles. She met Jason Blum when she was hired to help cast the wildly successful Paranormal Activity 2. Most recently, JK filmed Jeremy Sisto's feature Breakpoint. The final film in the $10,000 club was Awake: The Life of Yogananda with an opening of $18,885 in one theater. This site may be governed by it's ownTerms & Conditions and Privacy Policy. The Oscar ceremony is tonight and we will be live-blogging the winners assuming I don't get bored and wander away. "[35], The film appeared on many critics end-of-year lists. Filming took place in September 2013 throughout Los Angeles in the course of 20 days. Walters continues his role serves as Executive Producer on all of Bold's pictures, including current feature films WHIPLASH, the Sundance 2014 Audience and Drama Jury Awards winner which will be released on October 10, 2014 by Sony Pictures Classics; NIGHTCRAWLER, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo, which will be released by Open Road Films on October 17; THE COUP, starring Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan and Lake Bell which will be released by THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY on March 16, 2015; and LOST RIVER, Bold's third production with Ryan Gosling which marks his debut as writer and director and stars Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan, Ben Mendelsohn and Eva Mendes. In fact, this week it was the only one in the $10,000 club earning an average of $10,348 in 231 screens. Walters was born in New York, the son of legendary music agent, Norby Walters. [43], At the 87th Academy Awards, J. K. Simmons received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, Tom Cross won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing. Whiplash is a 2014 American independent psychological drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle, and starring Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, Paul Reiser and Melissa Benoist. Director Damien Chazelle Writer Damien Chazelle Stars Johnny Simmons Nate Lang J.K. Simmons See production, box office & company info Add to Watchlist 11 User reviews 4 Critic reviews Awards [3][4] The Grand Budapest Hotel took home five awards, while Boyhood, The Theory of Everything, and Whiplash earned three each. Even Sam Raimi's cult classic The Evil Dead started out as a 1978 low-budget 32-minute film, Within 7he Woods, starring Bruce Campbell, that influenced the full feature. Though the act further alienates him from his fellow musicians, the band nonetheless wins the competition, and he seems poised to become Fletcher's new "favorite son.". Today we look at the biggest prize, Best Picture. A journey that can be seen alternately as a descent into madness or an ascent to greatness comes to a crescendo on the biggest platform for Andrew's talents the unforgiving stage of Carnegie Hall. [16][15] Chazelle was involved in a serious car accident in the third week of shooting and was hospitalized with possible concussion, but he returned to set the next day to finish the film on time. We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. Benoist beat out 900 other girls nationwide to land the new female leading role of "Marley" on FOX's hit show "Glee.". STOWELL plays a wounded Marine, whose quest for his own rehabilitation and his strong bond with his young cousin, serves as the inspiration for building a prosthetic tail that saves the dolphin's life. Chazelle said that between takes, Simmons was "as sweet as can be", which he credits for keeping "the shoot from being nightmarish". It has already earned some measure of mainstream success and with room to grow, it will stay in theaters for a while. Overall, the top voter-getters in 18 out 24 categories went on to win the Oscar on the night, including all acting awards, all but one of the technical awards, and all the short films. The nearer to perfection Andrew gets, the narrower his circle of intimates becomes until he is left only with Fletcher and even that relationship is jeopardized by the ferocity of Andrew's ambitions. He also played Vern Schillinger on HBO's acclaimed drama "Oz," and had a recurring role as Dr. Emil Skoda on NBC's "Law & Order." It is the short film that the Oscar winning feature film is based on. Marketing and promotion. If I predicted a different film, those are in Italics. Heavily injured, he struggles to play "Caravan," and Fletcher halts the performance to dismiss him from the band. In a MovieMaker Magazine post, we learn the script received a fair amount of buzz, and the feedback was generally pretty positive.. [36], The film received the top audience and grand jury awards in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival;[40] Chazelle's short film of the same name took home the jury award in the U.S. fiction category one year prior. Astounding. Not ideal, but it is better to fix the mistake now than carry on making it. This could be a really dull Awards Season with very few surprises. Emboldened by this acceptance, Andrew summons the courage to ask out Nicole, the counter girl at his local theater for whom he'd nursed a silent and unrequited crush. Birdman picked up the biggest prize, but there were six different winners in the six categories. It earned seven nominations, while Boyhood and The Imitation Game tied for second with five apiece. In television, Blumhouse has a first-look deal with Lionsgate and is working on both scripted and non-scripted projects. It also reached $1 million in the process, barely. She established her company CatchLight in 1999 and has served as an executive producer for the romantic comedies In the Weeds and Amy's Orgasm. The film, which marks Gosling's debut as writer and director, stars Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan, Ben Mendelsohn and Eva Mendes. There are a few categories where the film I really think deserves the award were not even nominated, plus a few I don't have a real opinion on. The best new release of the week was Wild with an average of $28,896 in 21 theaters. The company's most recent film Insidious: Chapter 2 from FilmDistrict, grossed over $40 million on its opening weekend of September 13th with just a $5m budget. As for the actual nominations, like with the Independent Spirit Awards and the SAG nominations, Birdman led the way. Andrew quickly discovers that Fletcher is relentlessly strict, emotionally manipulative, and abusive to his students; he slaps and berates Andrew when he fails to keep tempo during the ensemble's rehearsal of Hank Levy's titular piece, "Whiplash.". He currently is a member of the Academy, is on the Sundance Institute's Director's Advisory Group and serves on the Board of Directors of the New Group Theater in New York City. ", Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Foreign Film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whiplash_(2014_film)&oldid=1141184603, Films about percussion and percussionists, Films about teacherstudent relationships, Films featuring a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award-winning performance, Films featuring a Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe winning performance, Films that won the Best Sound Mixing Academy Award, Films whose editor won the Best Film Editing Academy Award, Films with screenplays by Damien Chazelle, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2021, Rotten Tomatoes template using name parameter, Articles with MusicBrainz release group identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Nate Lang as Carl Tanner, another drummer in Fletcher's band, C.J. After directing the super low budget "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench" in 2009, . She produced of the World Festival of Sacred Music documentaries, which were inspired and hosted by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. More Once more, entrants in The Numbers Predict the Academy Awards Contest did an impressive job of predicting winners, in spite of a volatile Awards Season. Since graduating from AFI, Sharone has established himself as a distinctly unique cinematographer, shooting a remarkable variety of projects, including the award-winning indie drama MEAN CREEK, the dark and disturbing LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, the sports drama COACH CARTER and the period musical DARK STREETS. This article is about the 2014 feature film. Last year, Taylor cast the critically acclaimed Hitchcock, directed by Sasha Gervasi. To Andrew's surprise, the next day, Fletcher requests that he be transferred into his band. They have two children and live in Los Angeles. For instance, Birdman didn't lead the way. This film will hit major milestones very soon. Richard Linklater is favorite to win Best Director, perhaps in part because hes more due for the award than Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Post-production. The Independent Spirit Awards winners were announced last night and there were few surprises. Had it opened on Friday instead, it very likely would have reached the $10,000 club. Firstly, I've decided to use the year the movies were released not the year the awards are handed out, unlike what we did last year. They've ranged from big studio releases to surprise gems from the independent film world. However, it was a Wednesday release and it earned $13,145 over five days. [24] Whiplash grossed $13.1 million in the U.S. and Canada and $35.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $49 million against a budget of $3.3 million. The Imitation Game remained in first place on the per theater chart with an average of $48,658 in 8 theaters over the weekend. Notable credits include Travis Fine's ANY DAY NOW (Editor), Scott Cooper's CRAZY HEART (Additional Editor), the David Milch HBO series DEADWOOD (Assistant Editor), and Michel Negroponte's science-fiction documentary W.I.S.O.R. He also co-stars in the upcoming Paramount Insurge feature, DESTINATION WEDDING. Other Executive Producing credits at Bold include the Sony release, LEGION starring Paul Bettany; THE HOLE 3D from visionary director Joe Dante; 2008 Toronto Film Festival Official Selection MIDDLE OF NOWHERE starring Susan Sarandon and Anton Yelchin; MINI'S FIRST TIME starring Nikki Reed, Alec Baldwin, Luke Wilson, Carrie Anne Moss & Jeff Goldblum; 2006 Sundance Dramatic Competition Selection COME EARLY MORNING starring Ashley Judd; director Olatunde Osunsanmi's found footage thriller EVIDENCE starring Stephen Moyer and Radha Mitchell; and Nicolas Winding Refn's ONLY GOD FORGIVES starring Ryan Gosling and Kristin Scott Thomas. The Warner Brothers film was both critically acclaimed and widely received at the box office. Before it was a best picture nominee, Damien Chazelle 's Whiplash started as a short . Melanie is a member of the Art Director's Guild. Likewise, The Theory of Everything expanded to 41 theaters earning an average of $17,937. This is the second best per theater average of the year, behind only The Grand Budapest Hotel. Blumhouse's upcoming micro-budget wide releases include Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones for Paramount; Jessabelle for Lionsgate; . Terri Taylor (Casting Director) has worked on over 40 feature films over the course of her almost 20-year career in casting. Andrew's maniacal effort to achieve perfection is further fueled by Fletcher's psychological brinksmanship. Terence Fletcher, an instructor equally known for his teaching talents as for his terrifying methods, leads the top jazz ensemble in the school. After a grueling five-hour practice session with Tanner and Connolly on "Caravan," Andrew earns back the core position. Melanie Paizis-Jones (Production Designer) is a Los Angeles based production designer and art director. Prior to joining Blumhouse Productions full-time, Brill line produced for The Purge producer Jason Blum on the hugely successful Paranormal Activity franchise: Paranormal Activity, Paranormal Activity 2 and Paranormal Activity 3, as well as James Wan's Insidious, and Barry Levinson's environmental thriller The Bay. The actual drummer was Bernie Dresel. [12] Early on, Chazelle gave J. K. Simmons direction that "I want you to take it past what you think the normal limit would be," telling him: "I don't want to see a human being on-screen any more. STOWELL broke onto the movie scene in 2011 with a compelling performance in DOLPHIN TALE, opposite Morgan Freeman, Harry Connick Jr. and Ashley Judd. He's making the kind of musician that would throw a cymbal at him. For March 2015 THE COUP, which stars Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan, and Lake Bell will be released by The Weinstein Company. (Editor). Supporting actor and jazz drummer Nate Lang, who plays Teller's rival Carl in the film, trained Teller in the specifics of jazz drumming; this included changing his grip from "matched" to "traditional". Like the intensely single-minded drummer Miles Teller plays in " Whiplash ," its writer-director, Damien . This includes Big Hero 6, which opened in first place with 963,000 units / $14.44. In 2011, Reiser created, executive-produced and starred in, "The Paul Reiser Show" which aired on NBC in the Spring of that year. Jason Reitman (Executive Producer) premiered his first short film, Operation, at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. The film received widespread critical acclaim for its screenplay, direction, film editing, sound mixing, and Teller's and Simmons' performances, and grossed $49 million on a $3.3 million budget, making it Chazelle's highest grossing feature until the release of La La Land (2016). The final film in the $10,000 is The Babadook, which earned an average of $10,002 in three theaters. More We have a rather long list of limited releases this week, but sadly only three of them are earning overwhelmingly positive reviews. Meanwhile, the nominees I want to win, but don't think will win, are Underlined. Since that time, Walters has played a vital role in the growth and success of the company, establishing Bold Films/Sierra Affinity partnership and redefining the direction of company's slate, placing a firm focus on studio caliber features with top tier filmmakers and A-List talent. Taylor first met Chazelle when producer Jason Blum introduced them on the short-film version of Whiplash. Simmons' latest films include The Words, The Music Never Stopped, Jennifer's Body, Extract, The Vicious Kind, I Love You Man, Beginner's Guide to Endings, Contraband and the Academy Award-nominated Up in the Air. A drumstick against a drum head. I enjoyed the editing too and find it very pleasant to watch. He was educated at both Princeton University, where he majored in Statistics and Fordham Law School, where he graduated cum laude. Chazelle and Blumhouse first made "Whiplash" as an 18-minute short film and when that earned raves at Sundance . on Mar 2, 2015 Damien Chazelle, Short Film, Whiplash Initially unable to raise the $3 million budget for Whiplash, Damien Chazelle made a proof of concept, 18-minute short film that premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite east coast music conservatory. As for the Independent Spirit Awards nominations, Birdman led the way with 6 nods, while Boyhood, Nightcrawler, and Selma were right behind with 5 each. He is currently filming Divergent, based on the best-selling novel by Veronica Roth, which has been compared to similar young adult books such as The Hunger Games. Miles was born in Downingtown, Pennsylvania and during those formative years he developed a love of sports and has remained a die-hard Phillies and Eagles fan. In 2016, Sundance received 9000 short film submissions (compared to 4000 feature films) and only about 60 were selected to screen. Simmons' portrayal of Fletcher won him the Academy, BAFTA, Critics' Choice, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards for Best Supporting Actor. There were a trio of new limited releases topping the per theater chart, led by St. Vincent with an average of $27,470 in four theaters. At this point, the film has already earned some measure of mainstream success, while it still has room to grow. Growing up in Connecticut, STOWELL was a competitive athlete. Justin Hurwitz (music) graduated from Harvard University in 2008, where he studied music. The bold credits above the line are the "above-the-line" credits, the other the "below-the-line" credits. On the way to the next competition, Andrew's bus breaks down. The Producers Guild of America nominations were announced and there's not a lot of surprises among the three categories. Earlier this year, JK wrapped shooting Marc Lawrence's film, The Reluctant Professor opposite Hugh Grant and Marisa Tomei and as well as Gillian Raimi's next feature Murder of a Cat. This single act changes the young man's life forever.
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